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...writing in response to Joe A. Acevedo's brainless condemnation of Sinead O'Connor ("Hairless Heathen Heckles High Priest," Oct. 20). I am not sure which I found more disturbing, his blind defense of the Catholic Church, or his vicious attacks on Sinead for expressing her beliefs. Both were riddled with factual half-truths and logical inconsistancies...
Evidently Acevedo believes that a musician's job is only to entertain his or her fans, but unfortunately, some of today's music stars recognize that some things are more important than selling albums and making money. Sinead O'Connor does not care if her album sales suffer as long as she makes people aware of an issue that she rightly sees as important...
Acevedo claims that O'Connor "left even her most devoted fans without much of a clue as to her motives." This is sheer and unadulterated nonsense. Did he bother to talk to any of her "devoted fans" to substantiate his fantasy? As one of them, I would have been very happy to explain to him her motives, which are as noble as they are modest...
...Sinead O'Connor wants everyone, Catholic or otherwise, to reconsider what they have been taught about the church. She neither desires nor expects people to leave the church en masse or to go around ripping up their own photos of the pope. All she wants is for people everywhere to realize that there are some inescapable problems with the Catholic hierarchy that have persisted for over a millennium and will not go away simply by stifling dissent...
...Sinead O'Connor does not wave the American flag, that's her prerogative. She hails from Ireland and has no reason to particularly adore the Stars and Stripes. In fact, she left L.A. and moved back to London because she felt "there isn't any American culture." But this year's shenanigans have no justification. To point to a leader who symbolizes the Catholic Church and the values which it embodies and brand him the culprit of unfortunate social ills makes no sense. Insulting a religious group to make a political statement shows poor taste and amounts to little more...